District de Sissach

Sissach District is one of the five districts of the largely German-speaking canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. It has a population of (as of ). The district occupies the western portion of Basel-Country, bordering the neighbouring cantons of canton of Aargau and Solothurn. Its capital is the town of Sissach. Sissach district has an area, , of . Of this area, or 49.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 39.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 10.7% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.1% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.4%. Out of the forested land, 38.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 19.7% is used for growing crops and 23.8% is pastures, while 5.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. Sissach contains a total of twenty-nine municipalities: Sissach district has a population () of . , 12.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Most of the population () speaks German (28,263 or 91.1%), with Italian language being second most common (730 or 2.4%) and Albanian being third (396 or 1.3%). There are 210 people who speak French and 18 people who speak Romansh. the gender distribution of the population was 49.7% male and 50.3% female. The population was made up of 28,998 Swiss citizens (86.4% of the population), and 4,582 non-Swiss residents (13.6%) Of the population in the district 9,510 or about 30.6% were born in the district and lived there in 2000. There were 8,730 or 28.1% who were born in the same canton, while 7,721 or 24.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 4,367 or 14.1% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 249 live births to Swiss citizens and 47 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 227 deaths of Swiss citizens and 10 non-Swiss citizen deaths.